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Frans von der Dunk is a Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of Black Holes Consultancy, and is generally recognized as one of the world’s leading space law experts. Franz has served as an adviser to a number of governments, the European Commission, ESA, the United Nations, the OECD, various national space agencies, the Association of Space Explorers, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and a number of companies. He is Director Public Relations of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Member of the Board of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), and Member for the Netherlands in the International Law Association's (ILA) Committee on Space Law. He is also Member of the International Editorial Board of 'Space Policy' and many other long acronyms, incredibly important organizations and initiatives focused on space.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The issue of ownership and sovereignty in space

* How regulation helps and hurts our the future of space

* Why current space treaties are anything but adequate for space exploration

* What you need to know about asteroid mining and space settlements

* The brewing issues in space which could provoke war

* Why solving the Kessler crisis NEEDS to be a top priority for space operators

* Thoughts private enterprises role in space exploration

* What Frans thinks about Trump's Space Force

* The realities of extraterrestrial space life and the law

* What technologies most worry Frans most

* Why social media and data privacy are such big issues to contend with

* The scary truth about cyber, and space

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Karen Lloyd (@archaearama) is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee and lead of the Lloyd Lab. She's a deep subsurface microbiologist investigating novel types of microbes in Earth's deep surface biosphere, collecting them from remote places such as Arctic fjords, volcanoes in Costa Rica and even deep in a mud near the Mariana Trench to explore how these little critters affect the environments on a micro and macro scale. I'm guessing this research will have major impacts on our knowledge of life in extreme conditions and implications for humanity living off Earth, fighting climate change and much more...

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Life under the sea and what we're learning about the tree of life

* How some organisms and microbes slow down life and seem to live forever

* Why the deep sea is an untapped, unexplored goldmine

* What you should know about climate change, ocean currents, and catastrophe

* The reason the seas may hold the secret to extraterrestrial life

* What Karen thinks about climate change and sustainability

* Why CRISPR was in some ways enabled by oceanic research

* What it's like to dive deep in a submarine and experience warp drive

* The troubling trends of anti-science movement in the US government

* Why we know less about our oceans than we do about space

* The importance of fundamental research and science

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Arthur Holland Michel (@writeauthor) is a writer and researcher focused on drones, surveillance, artificial intelligence, robots, the arts, immigration, and movies for topnotch publications like Wired, Vice, The Verge, Fast Company, Motherboard, Al Jazeera America, U.S. News and more. Arthur's the author of EYES IN THE SKY, about the rise of advanced aerial surveillance technology and is the founder and co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone, a research institute at Bard College in New York State.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Where we are at with the cutting edge of drones

* The pros and cons of drone development

* How militaries are deploying drones and unmanned aircraft today

* Why lethal autonomous weapons are so dangerous but not just around the corner

* Which aspects of surveillance and privacy Arthur is most worried about and why

* The power of the press to keep governments honest

* What to think about consumer drone delivery and Amazon

* Which under-discussed industries will actually be most impacted by drones

* Why China's expertise in facial recognition and surveillance is so troubling

* The formula for a perfect dictatorship

* Is Minority Report inevitable

* Where do our personal freedoms and privacy lie

* How someone shut down one of the world's busiest airports with a little kid's toy

* What Arthur thinks about social media surveillance

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Charles Mann (@CharlesCMann) is a science-focused journalist and award-winning author. He's the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus which won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year which he followed up with 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Charles has co-authored four books, is contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired and has also written for Fortune, NYTimes, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 2018, Mann published The Wizard and the Prophet, which details two competing theories about the future of agriculture, population, and the environment.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The important distinctions between today's wizards and prophets on the future

* What are the biggest risks of geoengineering

* Why the future of agriculture is inevitably GMOs, and why that's a good thing

* How we can design a better, more 21st-century government

* Ways to change the incentives and structures governing society to automatically attack climate change

* The reason social media is a cesspool and what to do about it

* What are the biggest myths about the history of the Americas

* Thoughts on clean meat, mass agriculture and more...

* How do we handle growing inequality

* Why the West was never won

* The reason libertarianism and communism are two sides of the same coin

* Why there's such a distrust of science to the detriment of all

* What is there to be hopeful about emissions and the environment

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Mark Diesendorf (@markdiesendorf) teaches, researches and consults in the interdisciplinary fields of sustainability & energy, energy policy, urban transport, ecological economics, and practical sustainability Prior to joining the Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW Australia, he's been a Principal Researcher and lecturer at various higher institutions.

Mark's work with organisations including AusAID, Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Hydrocool Pty Ltd, Minister for Minerals & Energy (Western Australia), StateRail (NSW), Sustainable Energy Development Authority of New South Wales, Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria, WWF Australia, and various municipal and local governments in Australia and China.

He has been at various times secretary of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science (Canberra), co-founder and vice-president of the Sustainable Energy Industries Council of Australia, co-founder and president of the original Australasian Wind Energy Association, president of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) and vice-president of Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment (APACE). Mark is co-editor of the interdisciplinary book Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future and the author of Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy and Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions and Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* What the truth of climate change looks like now

* Why we're probably headed for at least a 6-8 deg F increase in global temperatures

* How we can design a better world from the ground up

* Why governments are so incompetent when it comes to handling climate change

* The reason renewables have already won and where we'll be 10 years

* Why AI and automation will displace a ton of jobs and necessitate a totally new economic and societal system

* How nuclear power makes our world less stable and more dangerous

* Where Mark sees the most innovative climate solutions being enacted

* Why we'll still need hydrogen fuel in a green world

* What systems design teaches us about sustainability and economics

* Why the world is as risky as it has ever been with respect to nuclear war

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Michele Romanow (@micheleromanow) is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, the youngest Dragon on Canada's famed Dragon's Den and one of the most badass women in tech. Before that, she co-founded SnapSaves (acquired by Groupon in 11 months), Buytopia.ca and Clearbanc (a transformational funding company to help startups avoid giving up equity). Michele is ranked on WXN's "100 Most Powerful in Canada" and listed as the only Canadian on Forbes magazine's "Millennial on a Mission" list. Michele is a prolific angel investor and the winner of Angel Investor of the Year award. She co-founded the Canadian Entrepreneurship Initiative with Richard Branson to encourage entrepreneurship and is a director of Shad International, a transformational program that develops the entrepreneurial potential of exceptional Canadian youth.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* What it was like as world's youngest Dragon's Den investor

* The future of ecommerce and entrepreneurship

* Why venture capital is so messed up and how to fix it

* How to get more women in tech and more female-led businesses

* The reason today's startup landscape is unsustainable

* How to redesign education for the future

* Why all monopolies eventually fall

* What Michele thinks about the reason crop of tech IPOs and economic future

* How to rethink ride sharing and what it may mean

* What's off with universal basic income

* Why San Francisco isn't necessarily the best place to build a startup

* What Facebook and Google's advertising economy has done to all of us

* The risks of social media and cell phones

* Why Michele is worried about the risk of AI

 

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Richard Whitt (@richardswhitt) is an 11-year vet of Google, corporate strategist, technology policy attorney and founder of GLIAnet, an organization, and foundation looking to upend existing surveillance capitalism paradigm with a user-owned and controlled data system. Richard is Fellow in Residence with the Mozilla Foundation, a Senior Fellow with Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy and advises companies on the complex governance challenges at the intersection of the market, technology, and policy systems. As Google’s corporate director for strategic initiatives, he worked on policy and ethical issues related to IoT, machine learning, broadband connectivity, net neutrality, digital preservation, and other emerging technologies and negotiated with the Cuban government to build the country’s first free public WiFi hotspot for Internet access. From 2012 to 2014, Richard was chosen by Google management as the Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Public Policy at newly-acquired Motorola Mobility.

In particular, he headed up Google’s open Internet policy on a global basis, guided the Company’s participation in the FCC’s 700 MHz auction, helped secure TV White Spaces spectrum allocation, and collaborated on the nationwide launch of Google Fiber.

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In today's episode we discuss:  

* The most important internet ethics issues of our day

* How regulation helps and hurts our privacy future

* Why net neutrality is such a landmark issue and what it means for all of us

* Which tech monopolies Richard is most worried about and why

* The power and promise of 5G

* What do we do about online advertising and data brokering

* Why on-device computing can be a privacy saver, or screwer

* What to think about Huawei, China and Trump's trade war

* Thoughts on breaking up Google and Facebook

* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes

* The effects of IoT on our collective freedoms

* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny

* What technologies most worry Richard most

 

 

 

 

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Dan Gartenberg (@dangartenberg) aka Dr. Snooze, is a sleep scientist, TED resident and the co-founder and CEO of Sonic Sleep and also an adjunct assistant professor at Penn State University. With expertise in psychology, AI, sleep and health, he's dedicated his life to improving the quality (and quantity of sleep) for the billions of individuals worldwide interesting in feeling and performing better.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How wearable and quantified self-movement will change what it means to be human

* The science of sleep, longevity, and disease

* Why Dan's dedicated his life to optimizing sleep and life

* The truth about sleeping hacking and biphasic sleep

* Why your lights and life may be killing you

* How phones and social media are screwing up our kids

* What's the cutting edge of personalized health

* How to live longer and healthier

* The reason we're all going to be cyborgs anyway

* Why it's hard to build a wearable tech company

* The importance of the 90-minute sleep cycle

* What elite biohackers are doing to win

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Jack Horner (@dustydino) is one of the best-known paleontologists in the world, the inspiration for (and advisor of the Jurassic Park films and Dr. Alan Grant and discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. His research is now focused on reactivating dormant dinosaur DNA in birds to hatch modern-day dinosaurs. Horner’s face is familiar to millions from his appearances in many television documentaries about dinosaurs.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Why Steven Spielberg just had to have his Jurassic monsters

* What is was like as the advisor to Jurassic Park

* The little known truths about dinosaurs and our their extinction

* Why Jack is working on creating a dino-chicken

* How to use dormant DNA to rebirth extinct creatures

* The value of sci-fi in forecasting and forewarning the future

* Why the public isn't always so interested in science

* How we shifted our entire understanding of dinosaurs

* What are the big risks of biotech and why Jack's not worried

* Why dinos were probably much more intelligent than we thought

* The actual way radioactive and carbon dating works

* What areas is Jack most excited about and why

* The truth and misconceptions about evolution

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Zack Abbott (@ZBioticsCompany) is the CEO and co-founder of ZBiotics, a company developing bioengineered probiotics for optimum human performance. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Michigan and developed ZBiotics’ core technology: probiotic bacteria genetically engineered to express targeted protein therapies directly inside the body. By building genetically engineered products that solve real human needs, he hopes to reverse the misinformation and lack of understanding that has contributed to the negative public perception of GMOs. In a past life, he worked with Rhesus monkeys to develop potential vaccines or cures for HIV and other infectious diseases.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Why GMOs are critical to humanity's future

* The reason GMOs (and vaccines) have such a public image problem

* Why probiotics and the gut microbiome are actually are a really big deal

* The secret cause of nearly all chronic and neurological diseases

* Why the best solutions to climate change are almost inevitably GMOs

* How to think about startups and IP in the biotech realm

* The future of personalized medicine

* Why LeBron's poop could help you lose weight

* The real risk of bioterrorism

* What fields of synthetic biology are the most promising

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Uplevel Your Meditation and Mind

Do you meditate?